CHRISTINE SUN KIM – THE ENCHANTING MUSIC OF SIGN LANGUAGE

She told us about ESL, English Sign Language. In that video, she little bit told the story about her experience as a deaf person who cannot hear the sound but must be living in the area which is the majority is interacting with sound. She tries to watch how people behave and respond to sound. She terms it as sound “etiquette”. She told that in deaf culture movement is also a sound. She told about her experiences when she went to Berlin, Germany in 2008. She went to Art Museum, where was no visual art there, only auditory. Then she decided to reclaim ownership of sound put into her art practice. She started create body of work. When he presented her idea, there were a lot of responds and received. She realized sound is like money, attention, power. Now sound is her new art medium. She surprised knowing sound has similarities with ESL and music. She told that envision of piano is like representative of sound. This represents how time is expressed in ASL. She said that ASL a rich treasure that we can learn and take a part.